Kent in the Twentieth Century

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Nigel Yates
Boydell & Brewer, 2001 - Business & Economics - 418 pages
This is the sixth volume to be published in the major ten volume new history of the county of Kent, and the first detailed study of the development of Kent during the past hundred years.

The sixth volume to be published in the major ten-volume new history of the county of Kent, and the first detailed study of the development of Kent over the past hundred years.

Each of the ten chapters begins by evokinga picture of Kent on the eve of the First World War and looking at the changes that have taken place between then and the present day in the area under discussion. Particular attention is paid to the impact of the two World Warson Kent; to the influence of national events on local institutions and people; to the role of the county council in the development of many aspects of life in Kent; and to the major economic and social changes of the last thirty years, many of them associated with Britain's entry into the European economic community and Kent's strategic importance as a corridor linking London and Britain to Europe.

NIGEL YATES is senior research fellow in church history, University of Wales, Lampeter.

 

Contents

Population
1
An Overview
27
Railway workers at entrance to Eastern Station Ashford c 1910
39
Erecting shop at Ashford Railway Works 1947
40
Medway Brewery at Maidstone showing the river in flood
41
Agriculture and Rural Society
59
Posed photographs of Kent hop pickers c 1907
79
Stilt men stringing hops at Hermitage Farm Wateringbury 1960
80
Architects original proposals for development at Aylesham 1928
204
Building plots at Kings Road Biggin Hill 1925
205
Health and Social Welfare
229
Victoria Home and Hospital Broadstairs c 1900
253
The County Sanatorium at Lenham opened in 1919
254
Airraid damage to Dartford County Hospital 1940
255
Playing croquet at Medway Old Peoples Home 1952
256
Popular Education
287

Hop picking at Nettlestead Farm Paddock Wood 1958
81
Outdoor staff at Eastwell Manor c 1920
82
Horsedrawn sprayer at Bethersden c 1930
83
Modern tractor ploughing at Wye 1979
84
Land girls being addressed by Minister of Food Lord Woolton
85
Transport
117
Calais steamer at Dover harbour 1910
129
Boat Express at Ashford station c 1920
130
Aerial view of Lydd airport Aerofilms Ltd
131
Politics
153
Cartoon by Emmwood in The Daily Mail showing Edward Heath
173
Cartoon by Garland in The Daily Telegraph of Edward Heath
174
Housing
199
Aerial view of Downham Estate on the boundaries of Bromley and
203
Pupils at Sundridge School c 1910
297
Standard fourvalve wireless receiver for use in Kent schools 1927
298
Bookbinding class at Stelling Minnis School 1936
299
School dinners c 1960
300
Pupils at Singlewell County Junior School Gravesend 1974
301
Religion
321
Charabanc outing for the parishioners of Elmsted and Hastingleigh
327
Culture and Leisure
335
Sissinghurst Castle one of the earliest properties in Kent to be
351
Mobile library van c 1925
352
Appendices
369
Guide to Further Reading
395
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